PROJECT - Alexander von Humboldt’s American travel journals

von Humboldt, Three of the nine american diaries, Sketch of the Orinoco region. Sketch of the Rio Grande de la Magdalena. Topographic sketch of the volcano Pichincha. Drawings: Staatsbibliothek Berlin Source: the art magazine, Kulturstiftung der Länder.

Awesome German ship, originally built in 1906 at Bremen; operated throughout North & Baltic Seas until converted into three masted barque & re-launched in 1988 as "Alexander von Humboldt" after Baron Alexander von Humboldt Prussian naturalist / explorer.

This graphic is a reproduction of a detail rich chart about phytogeography or the geographic distribution of plants. It contains three different charts and the works of two separate dimensions of botanical geography.